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Hiking Quotes are a great source of inspiration and motivation – get inspired below, vote for your favourite hiking quote at the end and find out more about booking a hiking tour with Hillwalk Tours!
“I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction”
“Let’s wander where the WiFi is weak”
“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hiking is a bit like life:
The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other…again and again and again.
And if you allow yourself the opportunity to be present throughout the entirety of the trek,
you will witness beauty every step of the way,
not just at the summit”
“The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
“And into the forest I go,
To lose my mind and find my soul.”
“In every walk with nature,
one received far more than he seeks.”
– John Muir
“We don’t stop hiking because we grow old –
We grow old because we stop hiking.”
– Finis Mitchel
“In all things of nature,
there is something of the marvelous.”
– Aristotle
“Of all the paths you take in life,
make sure a few of them are dirt.”
– John Muir
“Because in the end,
you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office
or mowing the lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain.”
– Jack Kerouac
“When everything feels like an uphill struggle,
Just think of the view from the top.”
“I like being near the top of a mountain.
One can’t get lost here.”
– Wislawa Szymborska
“Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.”
– Carrie Latet
“There is no such thing as bad weather,
only inappropriate clothing.”
– Sir Rannulph Fiennes
“The long distance hiker, a breed set apart,
From the likes of the usual pack.
He’ll shoulder his gear, be hittin’ the trail;
long gone, long ‘fore he’ll be back.”
– M.J. Eberhart
“You Can’t Climb Up A Mountain,
“Remember to turn everything off once a week
including your brain
and walk somewhere quiet”
